However, unlike seasonal hay fever, her allergy persisted throughout the year and plagued her with early-morning attacks of sneezing that sometimes lasted for hours. She had been sent from one doctor to another, without relief.
Cayce replied that she should “go to Dr. Reilly for a few treatments . . . [he] has had several cases that he has handled and I’m sure he would give . . . what she is looking for, real help.” The reading recommended osteopathic treatments, massage, cleansing, and a changed diet. The woman spent two weeks under my care. I treated her through elimination and the Cayce diet—and her mother again wrote Cayce, “My daughter was much benefited by following the instructions . . . given her [on April 10, 1938].”
She improved enough to carry through a successful pregnancy.
Sometimes there is no follow-up on patients, which is frustrating and makes it difficult to keep research records. In the thirties, a man, suffering from what had been diagnosed as leukemia, came to us about half a dozen times for treatment with ultraviolet light through green glass. He kept improving with each treatment despite everyone’s skepticism about the value of the therapy, but as soon as he felt better, he left for places unknown.
Case 4873
Mrs. B.B.S. wrote to Cayce, “I have bleeding piles ... Also I have been told by surgeons . . . that I broke a little piece off the bone of my right ankle . . . five months ago, thinking it was only a bad sprain; I find it has knitted onto a nerve.”
For piles, Cayce said, “a very helpful exercise . . . would be the bending exercise with the hands raised high above the head, bending forward to bring the hands as close to the floor as possible. Do this for two or three minutes morning and evening.” (4873-1)
He also gave detailed directions for preparation of the massage mixture-tincture of myrrh and olive oil—to be used in treating the injured ankle.
Sometimes there is no follow-up on patients, which is frustrating and makes it difficult to keep research records. In the thirties, a man, suffering from what had been diagnosed as leukemia, came to us about half a dozen times for treatment with ultraviolet light through green glass. He kept improving with each treatment despite everyone’s skepticism about the value of the therapy, but as soon as he felt better, he left for places unknown. —H.J.R.
To relieve the tendency for contraction where there has been the disturbance of the structural portions in the right lower portion of the femur, or the shin bone, use a massage with equal parts tincture of myrrh and olive oil. This will cause the absorbing of the greater amount of the tissue that has been thickened by nature attempting to adjust itself under the unusual conditions. With this it will be found unnecessary for the removal by operation. (4873-1)
In a follow-up letter, Cayce repeated directions given in the first reading:
The activities of the massage should be once each day. Heat the myrrh and add the oil. This doesn’t mean boiling, but heat and mix together for this will make for more of an ointment (while the other would remain in a different solution entirely). (4873-1)
Case 3558
Cayce had heartwarming success with children. Bobby F. N. was a five-year-old boy suffering from incoordination of the nervous system. This showed up in crossed eyes, defective hearing, retarded growth, insomnia, and extreme susceptibility to colds and coughs and bouts of chorea (also known as St. Vitus’s dance).
Cayce recommended osteopathic treatments, hot baths followed by cocoa-butter massages, and a controlled diet consisting of whole grains, plenty of silicone, and plenty of vegetables.
The mother brought the boy to me and expressed anxiety over the financial strain on the family. I told her I would treat the lad twice a week and charge only five dollars for one treatment. She was so concerned about following Cayce’s instructions to the letter that she wrote to him to check out my offer with him. Mr. Cayce replied in the following letter, dated August 16, 1944:
I think it is most fortunate that you can get such wonderful cooperation from Dr. Reilly under the circumstances. I feel sure that your son needs the treatments, and if it is a hardship on you and your husband, you are most fortunate in getting these treatments and of course I will agree most heartily, if Dr. Reilly is willing to carry on, we will do the best we can to help.
It is wonderful that he has shown improvement, and I do hope that with following through, you will get real, real results . . .
The treatments continued for one year and eight months. Improvement was gradual but steady. Years later his mother replied to a follow-up questionnaire sent by Gladys Davis Turner: “The first and very important result of the treatments right from the start was his ability to fall asleep at a reasonable hour for a child of that age [7:00 or 7:30 P.M.]. Before that it was 11 or 12 P.M.before he was asleep although he was in bed at the usual time.
“His eyes are perfect now. Vision is perfect, too . . . his hearing is completely normal.
“[He] is now a senior in high school, is an excellent scholar, plays basketball on the team, is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He’s in good health except that he catches cold easily. If I said more . . . it would sound like boasting.”
Case 448
One of my earliest cases from Cayce involved a man in his middle forties whose left side was paralyzed. Cayce described the cause of the condition this way:
As to the nerve system, here we find the seat or the cause of the disorders that exist ... In times back . . . when under great physical and mental strain, the body lost control of the activity of the muscular forces by a cell’s reaction in the blood stream to brain’s activity, but lodgment in the right portion in the brachial centers caused the left portion of the body to become desensitized to its normal activity. Hence the paresis, or paralysis . . . began in first the upper, then the lower portions and the whole left side has suffered under the strain. (448-1)
Cayce’s treatments prescribed the use of the radioactive appliance, manipulation, and passive exercise. The massage mixture was bizarre: one-half gallon of straight gasoline, one-half ounce of camphor gum, one ounce of oil of cedar, and one-fourth ounce of oil of mustard. But by this time I was so impressed with Cayce’s remarkable abilities that I followed all his instructions to the letter.
To one of the questions put to him at the reading, Cayce replied as follows:
Be faithful; be patient, keep in the attitude of expectancy. Do not make the applications as rote, but rather with the expectancy and the knowledge that with the applications is coming relief from the source of all supply—God.
(448-1)
Mr. B., the patient, wrote to Mr. Cayce, “Dr. H.J. Reilly showed my wife just the places to massage . . . Although I cannot see any change, I feel it has improved my condition and in the end will work as stated.” Six weeks later Mr. B. wrote again: “There have been many minor signs of improvement.”
Another paralysis case was that of a twenty-eight-year-old woman with paralysis of an arm. An operation had been advised by a number of doctors. When the woman questioned Cayce about this, he replied in a reading for her that an operation would be harmful rather than helpful.
—H.J.R.
Case 1030
Another paralysis case was that of a twenty-eight-year-old woman with paralysis of an arm. An operation had been advised by a number of doctors. When the woman questioned Cayce about this, he replied in a reading for her that an operation would be harmful rather than helpful.
The treatment for